User:Cyphoidbomb/Malayalam film fluffer
Overview
[edit]First spotted circa June 2016, this editor tends to travel across various Malayalam-language film articles to insert fluffy, and meaningless declarations of film success/failure in articles, like calling films "blockbuster", "super hit", "flop" and so on. Indian cinema is rife with corruption, and unfortunately that transfers to the world's greatest source of information: Wikipedia, where editors are paid to promote subject X and demote subject Y. I don't know if this vandal is paid--it doesn't matter. He seems intent to damage articles by adding promotional crap to them, despite previous notes and warnings like this note with ample examples on May 26, 2016 to 111.92.49.150 and this note on June 9, 2016 to 111.92.50.190. I believe that I was encountering this editor often months prior to June 2016, but it wasn't until June that I started to notice IP-hopping patterns with this guy. He's probably been doing this for months.
Behavior
[edit]Typically, the editor uses IPs that geolocate to Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India using Asianet as their ISP. Vandal continuously adds POV fluff like:
- "The movie was super hit at the Kerala box office."[1][2][3] (All from same article)
- "The film was super hit"
- "The film was huge hit in both Tamil Nadu and Kerala."
- "The film was box office success." (The lack of context in favor of a subjective proclamation, is problematic)
- "The film was a super hit at Kerala box office."
- "The film was super hit"
- "The film was blockbuster."
- "The film was super hit at tamil nadu box office."
Other behavior includes adding references behind fluffy statements like here where they tack on a reference to support the extraordinarily fluffy statement "The film become a huge hit at the Box office and Followed a cult classic." This was a continuation of a spate of 5 fluffy edits spanning three months and involving IPs 111.92.51.178, 111.92.48.234, 111.92.48.158 and 111.92.50.50. The disruptive user does, however, add references to their fluff and sometimes objective data (ignore the "super hit" stuff), which suggests they're not entirely incompetent.
Here is an example of a constructive edit from this user.
IPs used
[edit]- 111.92.51.178 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)
- 111.92.49.150 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)
- 111.92.50.190 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)
- 111.92.49.130 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)
- 111.92.49.122 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)
- 111.92.50.34 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)
- 111.92.50.2 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log) - This was the first IP of the batch that I blocked. - June 11, 2016 - 31 hours
- 111.92.51.30 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log) - This was the second IP blocked - June 12, 2016 - 1 week
- 111.92.48.138 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log) - blocked 1 month - June 16, 2016
Sample of articles affected
[edit]- Adiyozhukkukal - A Mammootty and Mohanlal film
- Rajamanikyam - A Mammootty film
- Kasaba (2016 film)
- Happy Wedding
- Punyalan Agarbattis
- The Truth (1998 film) [4]
- Jagratha
- Black (2004 film)
Other notes
[edit]There's a possibility this might be AniceMathew based on this edit. The reference points to here, which is from the account "ibinmathewjohn53". The spelling of Mathew is odd, but it just might be a coincidence.
